Syeda Momena Khatun
Syeda Momena Khatun (Bengali: সৈয়দা মোমেনা খাঁতুন, Persian: سيدة مؤمنة خاتون, romanized: Sayyidah Muʾminah Khātūn) was a princess of the Sultanate of Bengal's Hussain Shahi dynasty. She was the mother of Isa Khan, the leader of the Baro-Bhuiyan confederacy.
| Syeda Momena Khatun | |
|---|---|
| Princess of the Sultanate of Bengal | |
| Born | 16th-century Sultanate of Bengal |
| Died | 16th-century Sultanate of Bengal |
| Spouses | Kalidas Gazdani |
| Issue | Isa Khan Ismail Khan |
| House | Hussain Shahi |
| Father | Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Biography
Khatun was born in the 16th-century into a ruling class Bengali Sunni Muslim family known as the Hussain Shahi dynasty, in the Bengal Sultanate. Her father, Sultan Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah, was the son of Alauddin Husain Shah – the founder of the dynasty. Her sister was the wife of Khidr Khan Surak.[1]
She later married Sulaiman Khan né Kalidas Gazdani, who was her father's Dewan and the Zamindar of Sarail. According to historian M. Abdul Kader, Gazdani had fallen in love with Khatun prior to the marriage.[2] In Sarail, she gave birth to two sons; Isa Khan, who would later become the leader of the Baro-Bhuiyan confederacy after the fall of the Sultanate,[3] and Ismail Khan.[4] She also had a daughter who was popularly known as Shahinsha Bibi.[5]
See also
References
- Chandra Kumar De (1926). Eastern Bengal Ballads, Mymensing: Volume 2, Issue 1. University of Calcutta. p. 304.
- Abdul Kader, Mohammad (1988). Historical Fallacies Unveiled. Islamic Foundation Bangladesh.
- Ahmed, ABM Shamsuddin (2012). "Isa Khan". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- Abdur Rahim, Mohammad, ed. (1995). Islam in Bangladesh Through Ages. Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. p. 30.
Isamil and Isa were his sons by this wife
- Abdul Karim (1991). Akanda, Safar A. (ed.). "Masnad-I-Ali Isa Khan". Journal of the Institute of Bangladesh Studies. Rajshahi University: Institute of Bangladesh Studies. 14.